Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed the first to own a

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When our photographer Neal Boenzi took this picture in 1959

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Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed the first to own aIn the days before the last of New York's horse drawn trolleys disappeared from the streets, a photographer snapped one on Broadway, near 17th Street, alongside the newfangled thing that had made it obsolete, a "modern electric car." Horse cars like this one, considered an "antiquated vehicle" in 1917, traveled on the Bleecker St. & Fulton Ferry Line for quite a while before the operators chose to abandon the franchise. Several notables rode it one